Career highlights

• 2005: Limited to only 11 PGA TOUR events due to injury and a growing Champions Tour schedule. Underwent two right knee surgeries (February 14 and September 7). Will play the 2006 season on a Minor Medical Extension. Coupled with $180,583 earned in 11 events in 2005, has the opportunity to play in 10 events to earn $446,153 and match the $626,736 winnings of 2005's No. 125, Nick Price. If he does so, will play out of the Major Medical Extension category for the remainder of the season
• Best finish was T15 at U.S. Open at Pinehurst, aided by a third-round 69
• Played in 10 Champions Tour events, capturing the Ford Senior Players Championship. 2004: Split time between the PGA TOUR and the Champions Tour, where he gained eligibility in March
• Opened the season with a T15 finish at the season-opening Mercedes Championships
• Best PGA TOUR finish came at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, a T14
• Played in only two PGA TOUR events after turning 50 on March 4
• Had hip surgery on April 20th to repair a torn labrum. Missed six weeks
• Returned to the Champions Tour and collected his first title in June with a victory at the U.S. Senior Open. 2003: Voted PGA TOUR Comeback Player of the Year. Began the season with partial status, but became one of the year's top golf stories with a victory at the Greater Hartford Open. Having finished outside the top 125 in previous four seasons, 49-year-old won a career-best $1,162,726 to finish 62nd on the money list, best since finishing seventh in 1995
• Thanks to four rounds in the 60s, finished T10 at MCI Heritage for first top-10 since at T9 at the 2002 Tampa Bay Classic
• Posted another top-10 the next week in Houston with a T9 at the Shell Houston Open. The last time he recorded back-to-back top-10s was in 1995 with a T2 at the Doral-Ryder Open and third at Nestle Invitational
• Earned seventh career PGA TOUR victory in his 27th season (624th career tournament) at the Greater Hartford Open. Held at least a share of the lead for all four rounds in carding four rounds in the 60s. Oldest winner on TOUR (49 years, 4 months, 23 days) since Craig Stadler (50 years, 1 month, 18 days) the week before at the B.C. Open. Nineteen years since last victory in Hartford (1984). Earned a career-high first-place check of $720,000. The first-place check was exactly 10 times more than he earned for his first GHO victory in 1984 ($72,000)
• Set the first-round tournament record with a 9-under 63 at the Chrysler Classic of Greensboro before finishing T30. 2002: Three top-10s were the most since five (including two wins) in 1995. T8 at The Honda Classic was his first top-10 finish since a solo ninth-place finish at the 1999 B.C. Open
• Also logged top-10s at the John Deere Classic and the Tampa Bay Classic. 1995: Enjoyed best season of his career with two victories and more than $1 million in earnings, finishing seventh on the money list
• Victories came in successive weeks at AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and Buick Invitational of California. Was tied for 20th after two rounds at AT&T before moving into a tie for second with third-round 66. Closing 65 gave him two-stroke victory over David Duval
• The next week took lead at Buick Invitational with third-round 68, then added another in final round for four-stroke victory
• Passed on chance to win three straight at Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, opting for wife Jan's 40th birthday party instead. 1990: Defeated Scott Simpson by one stroke for 1990 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic title. 1986: Won Fred Meyer Challenge with Curtis Strange. 1984: First two-victory season on TOUR. Defeated Payne Stewart in playoff for Colonial National Invitation title, which he dedicated to his father, who had just undergone serious surgery
• Two-stroke victory over Mark O'Meara at Sammy Davis, Jr.- Greater Hartford Open later that year was highlighted by third-round 63. 1980: Came from six strokes off pace in final round for first TOUR victory at Buick-Goodwrench Open. 1976: First two professional titles were Oregon Open and Northern California Open. Amateur: Three-time All-American at University of Oregon
• Won 1974 Pac-8 Conference title.